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The U. S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency is posting regular updates on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the nation’s energy products supply and markets.
The U. S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency is posting regular updates on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the nation’s energy products supply and markets.
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Sometimes I collect documents and brochures at conferences and gatherings and never get around to reading them. Other times, it just takes me a couple of days before I get “a round tuit”. Last Friday I attended “Beyond Electricity” a talk sponsored by The Heritage Foundation and Third Way on the subject of the high…
Last week, while the world was very busy with a current tragedy, the United Nations released a report on a study lasting nearly 20 years about a long-ago tragedy at a place called Chernobyl. The study is rather long and full of technical detail, which makes it unlikely that the report will be read by…
It has been a tantalizing target for more than two years. In the early fall of 2004, China let it be known that it was interested in purchasing four large nuclear power reactor plants from international suppliers. The identified field of competitors from the early stages of the project included Westinghouse, Areva, and Atomstroyexport. (See,…
During day three of the ANS Winter Meeting, I chose to focus my efforts to learn about advances and efforts underway in the areas of training and education. That area seems very important to me – as the Second Atomic Age begins it will be very important to work diligently to train operators, technicians, engineers,…
A friend shared a link on Twitter to a BBC article and video titled International nuclear bank – helping world peace?. The article discusses the long history of the proposals to establish a fuel bank that can be placed in territory under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency as a means of reassuring…
Vicky Eckenrode of the Morris News Service published an interesting article titled Fuel costs eat at electric utilities. I found a published on November 18, 2005 on the web site of the Gwinnett Daily Post. After a detailed discussion of the basis for several recent fuel adjustment requests by both Georgia Power and by Savannah…